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Image Rotator & Flipper

Rotate or flip images by 90° increments locally and download the result instantly.

Runs in your browser — files never leave your device

How it works

Drop an image and use the four buttons: rotate right (90° clockwise), rotate left (90° counter-clockwise), flip horizontally, or flip vertically. Rotations accumulate in 90° steps — two rights give 180°, and one left equals three rights — while each flip toggles on and off. The preview re-renders after every click, and the download button saves exactly what the preview shows.

Under the hood the tool draws your image onto a canvas whose axes are swapped for 90° and 270° turns, so a 4032 × 3024 landscape photo becomes exactly 3024 × 4032 in portrait. Because the angle is always a multiple of 90°, every source pixel lands exactly on one destination pixel: no interpolation, no blurring, no cropped corners. That’s why the tool deliberately sticks to right angles instead of offering a free-rotation dial.

This fixes the classic sideways photo problem. Phones often store the photo in one fixed orientation and rely on an EXIF flag to tell viewers how to rotate it; anything that ignores the flag — older software, some upload pipelines, certain email clients — shows the image lying on its side. Your browser applies that flag when it decodes the file, and this tool then writes the correctly rotated pixels into a new file, so there’s no flag left for other software to misinterpret.

Everything runs locally: the photo is never uploaded, which makes the tool safe for personal pictures. The output is always a PNG named after the original — lossless, so a rotated photo is typically a larger file than its JPG source — and it carries no EXIF metadata, meaning capture date, camera details, and GPS location are stripped along the way.

Frequently asked questions

Can I rotate by arbitrary angles like 15°?
No — rotation is in 90° steps, plus horizontal and vertical mirroring, which covers sideways and upside-down photos. Right-angle turns map each pixel exactly onto a new position with no interpolation, so nothing gets blurred; a free-angle rotation would soften the image and leave empty corners.
Why do my phone photos show up sideways on some sites in the first place?
Many cameras save the sensor’s native orientation and just set an EXIF orientation flag that says “display me rotated”. Software that respects the flag shows the photo upright; software that ignores it shows the raw sideways pixels. This tool bakes rotation into the pixels themselves and outputs a file with no orientation flag left to misread, so it displays consistently everywhere.
Do the image dimensions change?
A 90° or 270° rotation swaps width and height — a 4032 × 3024 landscape photo becomes 3024 × 4032 portrait. A 180° rotation and both flips keep the original dimensions. The pixel count never changes; nothing is cropped or scaled.
Does rotating reduce image quality?
The rotation itself is lossless — pixels are moved, not recomputed — and the output is encoded as PNG, which adds no compression loss on top. What you don’t get back is quality already lost when the source was saved as JPG. Expect the PNG to be a larger file than a JPG original, since PNG stores photographic detail losslessly.
Does the rotated file keep its EXIF metadata?
No. The output is drawn on a fresh canvas, so EXIF data — camera model, capture date, GPS coordinates, and the old orientation flag — is not copied into the download. For photos you plan to share, that’s often a feature; if you need the metadata, keep the original file too.
Is my photo uploaded to rotate it?
No. The image is decoded, rotated on a canvas, and re-encoded entirely inside your browser — it never leaves your device and no copy exists on any server, even for a moment. Private photos stay private, and the tool keeps working if you go offline after the page loads.

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